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This article was authored by Will Hubbard. Will is the Vice President of Ratio Christi at Clemson University and is a junior majoring in Agricultural Mechanization.

“The myths that old men teach are truer than the facts young professors tell us.”-G.K. Chesterton

As I peruse that admirable volume of literature, Bullfinch’s Mythologies, which recounts the legends of classical Antiquity, I find that I am continually startled at how great our fathers really were at storytelling. Arguably with less information and supposedly with less intellect, they crafted the tales that have shaped humanity itself. It is incredible that the wild fantasies that the ancients purported should have lasted to this day at all, much less that they should be the primary foundation of our remembrances of pagan humanity.

This article was authored by Will Hubbard. Will is the Vice President of Ratio Christi at Clemson University and is a junior majoring in Agricultural Mechanization.

In my last essay I took the liberty of briefly discussing the problem of evil in this poor fallen world and the solution that God provides for it. As we celebrate the Christmas season, I would like to take this opportunity to elaborate particularly on a specific event in that plan of redemption, namely, the birth of the Christ in Bethlehem.

This article was authored by Will Hubbard. Will is the Vice President of Ratio Christi at Clemson University and is a junior majoring in Agricultural Mechanization.

But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak,
And not a god has wounds, but Thou alone.
-“Jesus of the Scars,” Edward Shillito, WWI English Minister

Only a cursory glance around us is required to discern that all is not well with the world. We all feel that in the depths of time something has gone wrong and the world is the worse for it. There is no doubt that evil exists: the wicked prosper, the innocent suffer, the poor are downtrodden, and before our very eyes the iron fist of cruelty marches onward to new atrocities. And we wonder, “Where is God in all of this? Does He not see? Does He not hear? Can He not stop this madness around us? Or worse yet, will He not?”

This article was authored by Will Hubbard. Will is the Vice President of Ratio Christi at Clemson University and is a junior majoring in Agricultural Mechanization.

Bereshith bara Elohim hashamayim ha’Eretz. ~Genesis 1:1

There is a question rooted deep within the heart of every man which, if left unanswered, haunts his waking moments with gnawing doubt and uncertainty. It is a question that mankind’s best, bravest, and brightest have wrestled with and even broken themselves upon. Its origins go back to the antiquity of antiquity, and yet it still presides within us in this current age. It is a question outside of time, unrelated to space; a question which dogs every man’s soul and conscience with an excruciating insistence to be answered. It is the question of “Does God exist?”